Appeal No. 2002-1305 Page 5
Application No. 09/327,966
reasonable construction. . . ." In re Hyatt, 211 F.3d 1367, 1372, 54 USPQ2d 1664,
1668 (Fed. Cir. 2000).
Here, independent claim 1 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations:
"(b) providing a triggering event for determining when a state of said at least one
coverage item of said coverage group is collected during the test verification process;
(c) detecting said triggering event; (d) determining said state of said at least one
coverage item as a collected coverage value. . . ." Similarly, independent claim 16
specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "(b) providing a triggering event in
time determined according to a temporal expression, said temporal expression being
constructed by the user, for determining when a state of said at least one coverage item
of said coverage group is collected during the test verification process; (c) detecting
said triggering event; (d) determining said state of said at least one coverage item as a
collected coverage value. . . ." Also similarly, independent claim 19 specifies in
pertinent part the following limitations: "(b) providing a triggering event for determining
when a state of said at least one variable of said coverage group is collected during the
test verification process; (c) detecting said triggering event; (d) determining said state of
said at least one variable as a collected coverage value. . . ." Giving the independent
claims their broadest, reasonable construction, the limitations require responding to a
triggering event by determining a state of at least one coverage item.
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